I would like to thank you for showing me the error of my ways with your vote on the Omnibus Spending Bill. I truly believed that there were some in DC who actually had the good of this nation at heart. I thought that you were one. I was mistaken. Your vote has proven to me that POLITICIAN is just a four letter word spelled with ten letters.

“Rule provides for consideration of H.R. 1105 with 1 hour of general debate. Previous question shall be considered as ordered without intervening motions except motion to recommit with or without instructions. Measure will be considered read. Bill is closed to amendments. All points of order against consideration of the bill are waived except those arising under clause 9 or 10 of rule XXI.”

One hour of debate for a hundreds of billions of earmarks and pork in a bill no one has had time to read.

I actually want to talk to someone in his local office. I’ve called there before, and had a nice chat with one of his chief aides. I want to try to find out what the heck he was thinking with this vote.

My email to my congress critter:
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Mr. Linder,
Thank you for staying true to your beliefs.
Thank you for your “NO” vote on Roll Call 86:
“The 2009 Omnibus Appropriations Act”.
We must fight them at every oppoprtunity.
I am ready to sharpen the tines on my pitchfork.
With much respect,
Me

I got this from Senator Casey, my response is first, I imagine he’ll vote yea in the senate....I forgot to throw in my thoughts on that idiot Biden, Mr. Overseer, damn!

Dear Senator Casey,

You repeated all of Obama’s speech to Congress, but I still am not buying one word of it. You are all, as the Democratically controlled Congress, spending like, as they say, drunken fools. My children and grandchildren cannot afford what you are all doing...spending TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS, that’s TRILLIONS AND TRILLIONS, when is it going to end??

You are all throwing BILLIONS AND BILLIONS OF DOLLARS around as though it were just thousands. I am choking on the pork and earmarks, you should all be ashamed of yourselves and embarrassed to think that the American people are going to just roll over, or is it bend over(?) for the CATASTROPHE you are all perpetrating on this great nation. Spending has never, I repeat never, gotten this country out of a recession. Soon we wil be in the same malaise Carter gave us. I can only hope and pray that from the ashes of what you are all doing another REAGAN is born.

I fear for my son-in-law currently deployed in Iraq and the rest of our brave military in harm’s way. Cutting the military in a time of war..YOU REMEMBER THAT WAR ON TERROR DON’T YOU?? Janet Napolitano forgot to mention it.

Thank you for taking the time to share your thoughts on the economic recovery plan. I appreciate hearing from you.

The end of the year brought sobering news about the state of our economy. So many working families have suffered under the weight of this recession. In 2008, 3.6 million Americans lost their jobs and unemployment soared to 7.2 percent. In Pennsylvania, 54,300 jobs were lost in a single month between November and December, bringing the state’s unemployment rate from 6.2 percent to 6.7 percent. Compounding the bleak employment data is the state’s own financial picture. These shortfalls present a danger to communities across Pennsylvania as state and local officials may be required to raise tax rates to meet the looming deficits unless action is taken.

As you are aware, Congress has been working with the Obama Administration over the past several weeks to come up with a recovery plan to begin to reverse the economic downturn. The bill, known as the American Recovery and Reinvestment Act of 2009, includes many components designed to accomplish this goal. For instance, the plan will give tax cuts to 95 percent of American workers, putting money in their pockets as they struggle to make ends meet. It will provide an infusion of capital into projects across Pennsylvania that will put people to work modernizing the Commonwealth’s roads, bridges and water systems, creating or saving an estimated 3.5 million jobs nationwide and as many as 143,000 here in Pennsylvania. It provides direct aid to the state to help fill the budget gap, stave off cuts to crucial services and provide additional unemployment insurance for workers who have lost their jobs. For greater detail on the funding specific to Pennsylvania, please visit my website at http://casey.senate.gov.

Although I recognize that this recovery bill is not perfect, I voted for it to help President Obama get our economy moving again, to create jobs and to aid those hardest hit by the economy. As you probably know, President Obama recently signed this bill into law.

This bill will not only create and save jobs immediately, but it help us rebuild America for the future, making us more globally competitive and energy independent. The investments it will make in roads, bridges, mass transit, energy efficient building, flood control and clean water projects will have a lasting effect on our economy. The bill’s investments in science and innovation will be used to spur new American-made technology, prevent and treat disease, and tackle urgent national challenges like climate change and dependence on foreign oil.

As the Obama Administration moves forward with this plan, I will work with other senators to ensure that taxpayer dollars are spent in an effective and efficient manner. The new law contains unprecedented transparency and oversight provisions that will allow taxpayers to see how their government spends their money. I encourage you to visit a new website, www.recovery.gov, that has been established so that you can track the implementation of this recovery plan.

Again, thank you for sharing your thoughts with me. Please do not hesitate to contact me in the future about this or any other matter of importance to you.

Walt Minnick(D) from Idaho voting with the GOP again. Im starting to actually like this guy. Real tell will be when a gun bill comes up for a vote.

I assume you live in his district. I have two suggestions for you. First, go to his email contact page and send him a quick thank you note. Second, either call (DC office (202) 225-6611, or he has 3 offices in Idaho, see the bottom of his contact page for numbers) or fax (DC office (202) 225-3029 or his local office) and tell him thanks.

By the way, I do think he's doing the right thing for political reasons. WOSG has a valid point. Having said that, I'm not against doing everything you can to have him actually represent his district while he's in, and still supporting a Republican challenger in 2010.

I would like to thank you for showing me the error of my ways with your vote on the Omnibus Spending Bill. I truly believed that there were some in DC who actually had the good of this nation at heart. I thought that you were one. I was mistaken. Your vote has proven to me that POLITICIAN is just a four letter word spelled with ten letters.

That's a great line.

And what a gerrymandered district you live in. Wow.

Did you use her web form? Or fax it? or mail it? I would suggest printing that in a short note, and mailing it with a Lipton (or Tetley or whatever's on sale) tea bag. Just do that as a follow up if you used her web form to send your message.

Good for you for contacting her, though.

Also, odd that she voted for this. She says she voted for a Congressional Pay freeze. I'm not sure if H.R. 1105 had the freeze in it. I don't think the Dems allowed any amendment. If she voted for the whole package to get the pay freeze, she really needs to have it explained to her that growing total federal spending 16% for the next six months to get a congressional pay freeze is a bad deal. Her negotiating skills need some development if she thinks she did good there.

Hoodat wrote:

They have just killed school vouchers in DC, ensuring that no poor kid in DC gets the same quality education as Obamas kids.

Another good point that people need to include in their faxes, letters and phone calls to congress critters.

pleikumud wrote:

And the RNC is sending me emails, looking for donations. Why donate, so they can help RINOs get re-elected?

Why not use the reply envelope to send them a note expressing that message.

When they called here, I told them I would handle my own donations to my local republicans, but I wasn't interested in funding campaigns for Arlen Specter and some of their other problems.

rightwingintelligentsia wrote:

My critter, Tim Murphy (R), PA, did as well. Hes going to get a call from me tomorrow.

Good for you. If you can, follow up with a fax or letter as well.

Gabrial wrote:

One hour of debate for a hundreds of billions of earmarks and pork in a bill no one has had time to read.

I wont need to send him a letter but if I was to, I would have copied yours.

Nice.

I have to agree somewhat with sam_paine on this. Maybe he assumed too much, but his underlying reasoning is valid

You need to send a quick note or make a phone call. These Congress critters need to know that we're watching and we care about what happens. Send a quick thank you. Maybe turn Roccus's comment around and say "Your vote has shown me that POLITICIAN isn't always just a four letter word spelled with ten letters."

Theo wrote:

How long was this available for review? Seems like it snuck up on us....

The bill was released Tuesday, when everyone was focused on Obama's address. Well, that and the "fiscal responsibility summit" from Monday.

The Party Propaganda Ministry (formerly known as "the media") was completely silent about this. They fully supported the Democrat "keep it a secret, we have the votes, we'll just pass it" strategy.

You really have to pay attention. Mr. Boehner has been complaining about this for most of February. And I've been trying to spread the word online, posting a lot of Boehner's press releases. I tried to get through to talk radio shows when I could, but never got a call through.

Blood of Tyrants wrote:

My Rat voted against the first round of Porkulus but ended up voting FOR its final form. Now he is voting against. When it comes out of committee, hell vote for it again.

Maybe your note to this critter should point out that you aren't blind and you see this. Explain how well the "I voted against it before I voted for it" excuse has worked in the past. Didn't some Viet Nam veteran do something like that once?

FloridianBushFan wrote:

I wrote and thanked my congressman (Congressman Aaron Shock)for voting against this pork bill.

Good for you. They need to know we are vigilant.

ding_dong_daddy_from_dumas wrote:

Actually, Republicans put in about 40% of the earmarks.

I was disappointed with all the Republican earmarks. On the other hand, it's the Dems that have been promising to eliminate the earmarks. They have been more vocal on the issue, and more hypocritical in their actions.

They are also the ones who promise "transparency" and "openness" and then refuse to publish the bills on the internet until less than 24 hours before the vote.

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posted on 02/26/2009 3:43:33 AM PST
by cc2k
(When less than half the voters pay taxes, it's called "taxation without representation.")

I'm not sure from your post which came first? Your letter or Casey's response.

It look like your letter is about the Spendulus package as well.

I find when I write to my Congress critter or Senators, it's best to start out with a statement like: "This is about H.R.1105, the Omnibus Spending Bill. I am opposed to this bill because:" and end the note with "I urge you to vote against this measure when it comes to the floor."

That way, you're sure the staffers understand which piece of legislation you're writing about, and exactly what your position is. I usually make the bill number and title, and the vote for/against this measure bold, so they can find it easily.

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posted on 02/26/2009 3:52:52 AM PST
by cc2k
(When less than half the voters pay taxes, it's called "taxation without representation.")

Did you use her web form? Or fax it? or mail it? I would suggest printing that in a short note, and mailing it with a Lipton (or Tetley or whatever's on sale) tea bag. Just do that as a follow up if you used her web form to send your message.

I used her web form as I always do in co-responding with her. As to sending her a note........I don't know. I'm old, tired, not in the best of health, bitter and consumed with impotent rage at these criminals in Washington. To be perfectly honest, ever since June 12, 2008 I've been contemplating just saying "To hell with all this political BS." I just want to say, "I QUIT!"

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posted on 02/26/2009 5:53:57 AM PST
by Roccus
(The Capitol, the White House, the Court house.....................America's Axis of Evil!)

Then I expect to not see unemployment rise any higher. I expect to not see any business in the entire country having to lay off one more single worker. We should expect to see the unemployment rates start to drop in the next day or so.

/sarcasm because I know that it's all a big lie.

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posted on 02/26/2009 8:41:29 AM PST
by 3catsanadog
(I plan to give the new President the same respect and dignity the other side gave Bush.)

I have to agree somewhat with sam_paine on this. Maybe he assumed too much, but his underlying reasoning is valid

You need to send a quick note or make a phone call. These Congress critters need to know that we're watching and we care about what happens. Send a quick thank you. Maybe turn Roccus's comment around and say "Your vote has shown me that POLITICIAN isn't always just a four letter word spelled with ten letters."

Although you sound very smart and you think you know how people should reply to their reps, I don't feel it necessary to be told what or how to do something I may already do. IMO, you went to a lot of trouble just to say nothing to a lot of people.

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posted on 02/26/2009 9:34:22 AM PST
by TribalPrincess2U
(Welcome to Obama's America... Be afraid, be very afraid)

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